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Options are fine and all, but they pay neither rent to landlords nor mortgages to bankers.
If you don't keep your employees well paid, there will be people whispering in their ears offering another $10 or $20k.
Not to mention that this is quite small city so even walking is not too big of a problem.
gonna leave that right there as testament to your credibility
MUNI covers most of the city, goes frequently and is inexpensive. I use buses everyday to commute and to get around the city and find them surprisingly good.
I ride my bike as my primary way of getting around. It's way faster than taking the bus (MUNI average speed is something like 8 mph) and I can leave work after 7:30pm (the time of the last convenient bus).
I live in New York City.
On a weekday, the last Caltrain train out of San Francisco leaves around midnight. The next one does not leave until 5 AM.
In NYC you have several trains going out in that time period, whether you're going to Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester or Connecticut.
For groceries, there's a Safeway two blocks from my place (and also Amazon Fresh or Google Express). For anything else, there's UberX, Lyft, bike, Caltrain, and BART. (MUNI is, well, ostensibly an option, but I'll leave it be and maintain my uneasy peace with its existence.)
There's no question that NYC has a much better, more extensive, and more connected subway system. No question whatsoever. But SF's isn't bad at all.
Granted, I am an LA native, so I am predisposed to think of the mere presence of some form of public transportation as magical.
I'm from Perth, Australia, a city which several observers have compared to LA. So I hear you on public transport.
sorry, had to. absolutely crazy that developers latch on to jobs where they are abused and overused for a mythical carrot.
Anyone with experience as a candidate on there want to tell us what it's like?
I believe that an actual human matches up job descriptions and resumes there, and you get an email every time your resume gets matched to a job. You're then given a chance to allow or deny the company to receive your contact info.
The experience felt like something halfway between a traditional recruiting agency, and a job board like Monster. You don't have a recruiter in your hair trying to push jobs on you, but you don't have the option of browsing all available positions at your leisure, either.
They're pretty good at filtering out the noise (they've never pinged me over a job that was an obviously bad match, unlike some recruiters I could name) but I'm left wondering how much signal gets filtered out as well. Getting bites for anything other than web development can be tricky.
Does anyone else remember?